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January 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Quentin Letts
Last updated at 12:04 PM on 12th January 2012
Pressure: Ed Miliband was satirically cheered when he arrived in the Commons yesterday
There were big cheers for Edward Miliband in the Commons. There really were. The only trouble for the Labour leader is that they came from the Government side. Ooooh dear.
The moment Mr Miliband’s name was uttered by the Speaker at PMQs, a big ‘hooray!’ rose from the Coalition benches, mainly from Tory ya-booers who camp in the near corner of the Chamber, under the press gallery.
It was beastly of them but horribly effective. Mr Miliband blinked, stung by the satire.
He somehow had to try to collect himself and open his remarks, as form dictated, with a tribute to British service personnel who had died over the Christmas recess. He made a couple of minor fluffs.
Poor, exhausted Ed. He must be finding this a wretched time. Everything tastes of dust and distemper. Nothing is going right. Nobody loves me, everyone hates me, might as well go and eat Quorn.
We all know the feeling but we do not have to stand in a packed cockpit of debate and keep our voices steady in front of 500 or so professional cynics, most of whom want us to fail. What hellishly hot oil our party leaders ladle over their limbs.
Mr Miliband’s own MPs, sitting behind him, were sickeningly quiet. Even the tribalists were feeling peevish. Even they sat on their hands.
Big-tummied John Robertson (Lab, Glasgow North West) normally roars his support for anything said by any Labour spokesman on whatever subject at whatever time of day or night. Yesterday he sat there in vast, expressionless silence. He could have been a pile of unattended laundry.
David Winnick (Lab, Walsall N), a row further back, was a study of rigid horror, spine so stiff that it might have been a scaffolder’s pole. Elsewhere on the Labour backbenches, glumness reigned. Gloomsville. I have not seen so many eyes waxed by such despair since we once had a four-hour delay at Chambery ruddy airport.
Cameron speaks during Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday, in which he didn’t indulge in teasing the beleaguered Labour leader
Nor did Mr Miliband’s frontbench
colleagues look more cheery about life. Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor,
attempted none of the morale-boosting goofery he normally essays at
Prime Minister’s Questions. Mr Balls was for once silent, motionless,
devoid of strop.
Jim Murphy, Shadow Defence Secretary, blushed, turning the colour of spring rhubarb. The only person who seemed to display a shard of support for the sinking Mili’ was the Shadow Leader of the House, Angela Eagle.
Mr Cameron, though in a different league from the Leader of the Opposition (a title which, arguably, should be passed to Nick Clegg), was sparing in his treatment of the flailing Labour leader.
He DID not tease him about many of the recent travails. He did not, as he might have done, taunt him by reading comments by Mr Miliband’s less-than-totally-supportive ‘guru’, Lord Glasman. Nor did he mention Brother David. Or the Blockbuster Tweet. Or the Baldwin memo. And so forth.
Instead he simply, casually, in a voice almost arch with polite restraint, noted that ‘I know the Rt Hon Gentleman has had a difficult start to the year’.
This was done in a way that reminded me strongly of the way Tony Blair used to talk to Iain Duncan Smith at PMQs.
By now, dearly beloved, I was starting to come over all teary. My nose was starting to go fizzy, just as it does in one of the weepy bits in Toy Story.
It was a distinct relief when Mr Miliband curtailed his questions (about train fares) and came back later with some common-ground enquiries about Scottish independence.
Angus Robertson (SNP, Moray) spoke up punchily for the Scots Nats. Mr Cameron at last had a game.
At the end of PMQs, MPs filed out of the Chamber, Mr Cameron surging out on a surfer’s wave of pompy power. Mr Miliband left more quietly.
As he reached the double doors behind the Speaker’s Chair, he was touched on the arm by John Woodcock (Lab, Barrow Furness). A soft, considerate gesture. Funereal, almost.
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It’s all very sad, yes, truly sad.
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Leave Ed alone, he is doing a sterling job keeping New Labour from taking power.
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PM`s questions is becoming a love-in. Now Little Teddy Minor has taken to agreeing with the government in a effort to curry favour with………well, anyone really. In future we will have half an hour of Prime Minister`s triumphant speeches. I`m looking forward to it.
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Where was all the blood and gore then? What a wasted opportunity for Dave to
put the boot in, instead of going all gooey and brushing down Red and offering
sympathies for the hated Glasman! What he should have done is point out that
Red’s Party is an absolute disgrace for instigating the break-up of the UK in the
first place, rather than pretend he is now an ally against the wiles of Alex-the-
Bruce who’s trying to swipe all the oil and dump all his debts on any passing
English mug! What a legacy for Labour – the Party who broke up the UK and
left a poisoned lake of resentment and distrust in it’s wake – and all brought
about by “Scottish” Labour politicians, supported by all those stupid English
voters! Talk about being helped with your own suicide! Poor old Red – he now
has to try and defend what Blair and Brown plotted, whilst trying to stop the
avalanche they deliberately started! Let’s hope enough Scots remember what
300 years of joint loyalty to The Union means?
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